11.
Damien POV
It was here, the letter I had been waiting to receive. I quickly opened the envelope and pulled the letter out.
Damien, you have been accepted into our crew.
Flight leaves to Germany Sunday 4.30pm.
You will need to arrive in uniform which will be ready to collect on Saturday at 12pm.
I read through the rest of the letter, giving me details about everything.
I walked out of my house and got in my car and headed towards the school.
***
"You are joining the army?" Mrs Dew's said shocked after reading my letter.
"Yes." I replied.
"You mean your going into training for a year?" Mrs Dew's asked.
"No, I have already done that, my dad knows some people who trained me up and I am allowed to join before I am 18, plus I am 18 in the next couple of months anyway."
"I am so shocked, what about your education?"
"Mrs, not being funny but I am not very good at half these lessons anyway; I want to fight for our country." I smiled.
"I am proud of you. Please be careful out there. I suppose its goodbye then." Mrs Dew's said before pulling me in for a hug.
I walked out the office and headed back out to my car. I was doing the right thing.
I turned the radio on when Karly's song started playing "wake me up when it's all over, when I'm wiser and I'm older" I quickly changed station and then pulled out of the school grounds and drove home.
*
I reached my house to see Lucy standing outside. I rolled my eyes and walked towards my door letting us both in.
I chucked my letter on the table and then got myself a drink before offering Lucy one.
"No thanks, so how come you aren't at school?"
"I could ask you the same thing." I laughed.
"I wanted to see if you were ok because you were angry at school yesterday and then Karly said your phone was off when she called."
The mention of Karly's name hurt.
I stood there in silence and noticed Lucy looking at the letter on the table.
I tried to grab it but Lucy picked it up.
"What the hell? Who's is this?" Lucy asked.
I stayed silent.
"Oh my life Damien, no way are you joining the army."
"It's too late." I replied.
"Wait, what? Is this because of Karly?" Lucy asked shocked.
"No, not all because of Karly, I wont get any where at school or college, I want to help fight for our country, I have been training for this since I was 15, I just didn't have a reason to go before but now I have plenty." I said before taking the letter back off her.
"You aren't even 18." Lucy snapped.
"Yes well my dad knows people." I replied.
"When do you leave?"
"I don't want to talk about it. Look I have a lot to do could you please go and don't get telling anyone about this." I snapped a little.
Lucy shook her head annoyed at me and walked out the door making sure she slammed it behind her.
